My Porfolio: An Application for an Internship at 538

Introduction

Below you will see examples of my work created using Stata, R, and Gephi.

Social Network Analysis Centered on New York Primary

Looking at the two populist campaigns of Sanders and Cruz, I downloaded millions of tweets during the days leading up to the New York Primary. I then conducted a network analysis using Gephi and also created simple word clouds of the top hashtags for each campaign. Note that the Gephi files are incredible large and detailed, which is why I have chosen to upload them as PDFs.

Top 47 Hashtags for Cruz campaign supporters (ignoring top 3).

Top 47 Hashtags for Sanders campaign supporters (ignoring top 3).

Cruz Twitter network looking at communication between from- to to-users. Each color represents a different community with node size labels based on relative magnitude of in-degree measurement. Some communities to highlight: the @tedcruz network is in purple, @realdonaldtrump in green, and @chucknellis (the user with the most retweeted tweet) in light pink

Sanders Twitter network looking at communication between from- to to-users. Each color represents a different community with node size labels based on relative magnitude of in-degree measurement. Some communities to highlight: the @berniesanders network is in purple, @hillaryclinton in blue, @bkforbernie in bright pink, and @susnsarandon in dark grey. Importantly, @jordanchariton’s community is in green. Chariton had the most retweeted tweet, which contained detailed information how to vote with an emergency provisional ballot

Inheritance Taxation Graphics

Data from EuroStat looking at the share of tax revenues generated by inheritance taxation (if any is applicable) by country.

Bar graph: Data from EuroStat looking at the share of tax revenues generated by inheritance taxation (if any is applicable) by country.

Top Income Earners in Finland

I wrote a script in R that scraped data from Finland’s most influential business newspaper. Since 2009, they have published Finland’s top 15,000 income earners, including their name, gross earnings, and average tax rate. I then visually analyzed the data below and wrote an academic paper with a co-author found here.

Raw data of 5 years of logged income data from top Finnish earners plotted against the average tax rate paid in a given year.

Simple bin plot showing the observation counts for average tax rate paid across the years available for the data.

Plot income earnes by decile and year. Clear evidence that there was indeed a tax reform in 2011 for the top tax bracket.